| 2017 Cactus Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 29th Cactus Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 26, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Chase Field | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Phoenix, Arizona | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Alex Delton (QB, Kansas State) & Denzel Goolsby (S, Kansas State)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Kansas State by 6[2] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Jerry Magallanes (ACC) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 32,859[3] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Payout | US$TBD | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | ESPN/ESPN Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | TV: Jason Benetti, Jordan Rodgers, Olivia Harlan Radio: Marc Kestecher, Tom Ramsey, Desmond Purnell | ||||||||||||||||||
The 2017 Cactus Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game played on December 26, 2017, at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona. The game was the twenty-ninth edition of the Cactus Bowl, which was originally known as the Copper Bowl, Insight Bowl and then as the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl.
The game was one of the 2017–18 bowl games concluding the 2017 FBS football season. The bowl featured the Kansas State Wildcats of the Big 12 Conference against the UCLA Bruins of the Pac-12 Conference, and was the final game of the season for both teams.[4] Kansas State won, 35–17.